NEIL CAVUTO, HOST OF "YOUR WORLD": All right, well, forget the presidential elections. To the warning about what happens right after that.

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ALAN SIMPSON, FORMER CO-CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL COMMISSION ON FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND REFORM: I think between November 6 and December 31, it’s going to be chaos in Congress, absolute chaos.

And let me tell you, there will be hair and blood and eyeballs all over the floor. And they will do something. They will do something. They may do a six-month extension. You can bet that’s the closest thing that will come. And then the new president or the old president, whoever’s elected is going to come in, in January and say, I never knew these figures were this bad.

I’m talking about Alan Simpson, warning about an ugly lame-duck session this year.

The former co-chair of the debt commission with us now.

Senator, always a pleasure.

But that’s my point. I’m wondering -- and I was raising it with Mitt Romney’s economic adviser that he can always claim coming into office, man, I didn’t know things were so awful. Bill Clinton did that. George Bush Sr. did that. Who’s to say Mitt Romney, if he were to be elected, wouldn’t do that?

SIMPSON: Well, I tell you, Annie and I, my wife -- that’s the woman I have been living with for 57 years -- we were in France during -- just while that election was going on.

And we think after Hollande has trounced Sarkozy, that he’s going to come in and say now we need an audit. And then he is going to say, I never dreamed that France was in this condition. And what I promised you about taking the retirement age back to 62 from 60 and the 35-hour workweek, all of that is just Disney World.

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CAVUTO: But then do what? There has been talk that -- and a number of advisers have said, if the president wants to turn this whole languid kind of polling around, he could just be bold, and say, you know what. What Alan did with Erskine, I’m for that now. I’m for the debt commission now, better late than never.

How likely do you think that is?

SIMPSON: I don’t know that it is.

But I was with Bill Clinton this morning, part of the program, John Boehner. It was a great program with the Peterson Institute talking about real things, talking about Bowles-Simpson. We don’t use Bowles-Simpson. Bowles told me not to us that because the acronym is B.S. So we use Simpson-Bowles.

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SIMPSON: And that’s all right. And that’s all right.

But let me tell you, Erksine always says that he would have gone and he did go to President Obama and he said, look, you appointed this group by executive order. And you set up some of the members. They came in, 11 of the 18. That’s 60 percent.

And Erksine goes like this. He says I know my friend Clinton; he would just wrap his around that and say, I will take that. I will buy that package. And he could have done that.

CAVUTO: He could have done it. Well, that was then. It’s a lost effort here now. But you could be late than never. The one thing I did want to touch on and you mentioned, I thought it was a very perceptive comment, as all yours are.

SIMPSON: Yes, of course.

CAVUTO: But this idea that these big tax issues are backing up like planes at La Guardia, that they all expire at the end of the year, all the Bush rates, the payroll tax thing, a host of other affecting Social Security, Medicare.

You name it, and they all end at the end of this year. Now, you talked about at a minimum they are probably going to do some namby-pamby six-month extension thing, but that -- it will be a lame-duck session that does it. Do you really still believe that?

SIMPSON: They are going to be punished. I really believe that many of these people who swear that they won’t touch precious Medicare, precious Medicaid, precious Social Security, and precious defense, the people will know these people are full of it. They are full of B.S.

You can’t get there without touching those big ones. In fact, right now, last year, the income into the United States, excise, tariff, income tax, only covered three things. Every cent of revenue covered Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and we had to borrow everything for defense, homeland security, culture, research and development, infrastructure.

Madness. And I think they’re going punish guys because they know they are just damn liars.

CAVUTO: But you get your share of grief from a lot of AARP folks and older Americans...

SIMPSON: Oh, my, yes, yes.

CAVUTO: ... who say, you know, as a fellow old guy, you’ve let them down. You are out to kill the old people. You are out to starve them. You’re out to destroy them, that you’re all but a murderer.

What do you say?

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SIMPSON: How about the cat food commission?

CAVUTO: Yes, I remember that one. I remember that one.

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CAVUTO: And then even the cats walked out, they were so ticked off at you.